Warner Music Group Adding Play-to-Earn Games With Splinterlands Partnership
The music giant is adding blockchain-based gaming to its repertoire in an effort to expand revenue streams for its roster of musicians. Original Source
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Warner Music Group announces partnership with blockchain gaming developer Splinterlands
On Wednesday, Warner Music Group announced it had entered into a partnership with fantasy-themed collectible card game developer Splinterlands. The two companies will collaborate and enable opportunities for WMG artists to create and develop play-to-earn, arcade-style blockchain games. Last month, WMG made its first entry into the nonfungible token, or NFT,
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Snoop Dogg Plans to Turn Death Row Records Into the First NFT Music Label
“Death Row will be an NFT label, we will be putting out artists through the metaverse and a whole ‘nother chain of music,” Snoop Dogg, whose given name is Calvin Broadus Jr., said, according to an audio recording of the call. “Just like when we broke the industry when we
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Coachella Music and Arts Festival Partners With FTX US to Issue Solana-Based NFTs – Bitcoin News
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is stepping into non-fungible token (NFT) technology space, according to the festival’s official Twitter account. Coachella partnered with the crypto exchange FTX US, and the NFTs are minted on the Solana blockchain. Coachella Partners With FTX US to Mint Solana-Based Digital Collectibles Since 1999, the
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Coachella Music Festival to Launch Solana NFTs in Deal With FTX
The first set, called the Coachella Keys Collection, consists of just 10 tokens, each offering lifetime festival access and other VIP goodies (among them, a “celebrity chef dinner”). There’s also the Desert Reflections Collection – 1,000 tokens priced at $180 each, which buyers can redeem for a physical copy of
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The Metaverse will change the live music experience, but will it be decentralized?
As the two-year anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic begins to hurtle toward us, we are no closer to knowing when our social lives will return to normal or what will the new normal be. The effect this has had on businesses like nightclubs, music venues and musicians have been
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The Sandbox (SAND) metaverse token gains 40% after Snoop Dogg, Warner Music partnership
Sandbox (SAND) refused to go down despite broader negative market sentiment in the past 24 hours. Instead, the altcoin logged a breakaway recovery as traders assessed its recent high-profile partnerships as a sign that the project has strong fundamentals.SAND rose 10.23% to $3.38 at the UTC close on Jan.27, followed by another
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Warner Music Group to Launch ‘Concert Theme Park’ in Sandbox Metaverse
“We are deeply focused on Web 3 right now and the impact it will have on music. It’s incredibly difficult to put value against fandom right now,” Oana Ruxandra, chief digital officer and executive vice president of business development at WMG, told CryptoX in an interview. “The music industry had
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Rapper Nas to let fans own part of his music through NFTs
Award-winning rapper Nas will release nonfungible tokens (NFTs) that will let his fans own a stake in two of his songs, “Ultra Black” and “Rare.”Users who buy and hold the NFTs, dubbed limited digital assets (LDAs), will get a specific percentage of streaming royalty ownership depending on the token that they
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Nas Selling Rights to Two Songs via Crypto Music Startup Royal
The rapper Nas plans to sell two of his recent tracks through Royal, the crypto-backed music service he invested in late last year.The songs – “Ultra Black,” off Nas’ 2020 album King’s Disease, and “Rare,” from 2021′s King’s Disease II – will be available as “limited digital assets” [LDAs], which
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